Noise-preventer for covers of receptacles.



'1. B. GARRIS.

NOISE PRBVENTER FOR COVERS 01 REGEPTAGLES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JAN. 22, 1908.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

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THOMAS B. GARRIS, OF HART, MICHIGAN.

NOISE-PREVENTER FOR COVERS OF REOEPTACLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

Application filed January 22, 1908. Serial No. 412,087.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. GARRIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hart, in the county of ()ceana and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved N oise-Preventer for Covers of Receptacles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a novel, simple attachment for the cover of a commode vessel, which will obviate noise when the cover is placed on the receptacle, and also effectually seal the joint therebetween, so as to prevent an escape of odor from the contents of the vessel.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a pers ective view of a commode vessel having t 1e improvement placed thereon; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side view of the upper part of a commode vessel, a cover thereon, and the improvement secured on the cover and interposed between the vessel and cover, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the improved noise preventer, seen in the direction of the arrow 0; in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 5 indicates a commode vessel of'ordinary shape, having a rounded upper edge a thereon. A cover 6 is provided as an adjunct for the vessel 5, and as usual has a flat circularly edged portion 1) thereon, from which depends an annular flange c that is spaced from the free edge of the cover. Ordinarily, the flange c is inserted into the vessel 5, and the flat portion 6 is seated upon the edge a of the vessel, when the cover 6 is placed upon the latter, and as the flange c fits quite loosely within the upper edge of the vessel, exhalations from said vessel are liable to occur.

Furthermore, as the vessel and cover are formed of porcelain or like material, noise is generally produced when the cover is placed upon the vessel, which in a nursery or room occupied by an invalid, is objectionable.

The improvement, which effectually prevents an occurrence of noise or escape of odor from the commode vessel, consists of the following details:

7 represents a flat planchet of heavy paste- Y board, having a circular edge and such an area as will adapt it to extend at the edge slightly beyond the rim of the vessel 5 when placed thereon.

lhe preferred means for detachably securing the sealing disk 7 upon the cover 6, as shown is in the form of two strips 8, 8, of resilient plate metal having an equal width, and a length that will permit them to be bent into form and arranged as follows: At an equal distance from their longitudinal centers, the strips 8 are return bent, forming two depending legs (1 on each strip, and at their centers said strips are lapped one upon the other and perforated oppositely where they cross, said strips being disposed at right angles to each other.

1n the sealing disk 7, four slit-like openings g are formed at e ual distances from the center thereof, in w ich a perforation is made. .[he legs d are passed downwardthrough the openings g and the strips 8 are seated upon the upper side of the disk 7 and then as shown in Fig. 2, the disk and strips are secured together by means of a clip or rivet, a clip h being shown as one means for clamping said parts together. The ortions i of the stri s 8, that form arms, an extend outside of t e legs (1, are at their ends bent into similar hooks i, and said arms 11 are each inclined upward and outward an equal degree. As will be seen in Figs. 1 and 2 the relative proportion of the parts is such, that when the cover 6 is seated u on the strips 8, above the bends forming the egs d, the hooks i may be engaged with the edge ortion of the cover, due to the resilience of t e arms '11, whereby the disk 7 is secured upon the lid or cover 6 so that it virtually becomes a part of the cover when thus attached thereto.

l/Vhen the cover 6 is to be placed upon the commode vessel 5, said lid or cover is manipulated by means of a handle 6 thereon, so as to pass the legs (1 down into the vessel, which will dispose the flat portion of said disk that is exterior of the legs, in position for contact with the edge a of the vessel, and it will be evident that the weight of the lid or cover 6 will cause such an inforced contact of the disk upon the edge a as to seal the chamber or vessel 5, so as to prevent any escape of odor therefrom. It will also be a parent from the nature of the material used in the manufacture of the disk 7, that its interposition between the vessel5 and cover 6 will prevent the productionpf noise, so that the cover may be placed in position and removed in a noiseless manner.

From the manner of attaching the disk upon the cover 6, it will be seen that bysimp y springing the spring-pressed hooks 7/ outward, the lid or cover may be readily disengaged from the arms i and thus be released from the disk 7, which will enable the convenient cleansing of the cover at any time this is desired, and obviously said disk may be replaced thereon by a reengagement of the hooks i with the edge portion of the cover 6.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

I 1. A- noise preventer for covers of receptacles, comprising a fiat disk of noise preventing material and metal strips secured to the disk, and having members for attaching the disk to a cover.

2. A noise preventer for covers of receptacles, comprising a flat disk of noise preventing material, stri s of sheet metal extending across one face 0 the disk and secured to the disk, the strips having end members adapted for engagement with the edge portion of a cover. I V v 3. A noise preventer for covers of receptacles, comprising a flat disk of noise preventing material, and spaced clamping means carried by the disk for detachably securing the disk to a cover. 7

4. The combination with the cover for a commode vessel, of a noise preventing means, comprising a flat disk of noise preventing material, and clamping hooks of resilient metal carried by the disk and adapted for en gagement with the edge of the cover.

5. The combination with a commode ves sel and a cover therefor, of a flat disk of noise preventing material, resilient metal strips se cured at right angles to each other onone side of the disk, and hook members on the ends of said strips, adapted for. engaging the edge ortion of the cover, the diskbeing interposed between the edge of the vessel and a portion of the cover when said cover is placed on the vessel for its closure.

1 6. The combination with a commode vessel and a cover therefor, having a depending annular flange thereon, of a flat disk of noise preventingmaterial, said disk having. slit openings therein an equal distance from the center thereof, two resilient metal strips secured at right angles to each other upon one side of the disk, legs formed on the strips, passing through the slit openings in the disk, arms extended from the legs on the strips, and inclined outward and upward, and hooks formed upon the ends of said arms, which engage the peripheral edge of the cover.

7. The combination with the cover of a commode vessel, of a noise preventing medium comprising a flat disk of pasteboard, and spaced clamping hooks carried by the disk and adapted to engage the edge of the cover.

8. A noise preventer for covers of receptacles, comprising a flat circular disk of pasteboard, and metal attaching members secured to the disk and adapted to engage the edge of a cover. 7

9. A noise preventer for covers of recep tacles comprising a flat circular disk of noise preventing material having slit; openings therein an equal distance from the center thereof, two metal strips crossing one'face' of the disk substantially at right angles to each other and secured to the disk, and projections formed on the strips and extending through the slits in the disk, the ends of the strips forming attaching means for holding the disk inposition on the cover of a recep tacle. v w

In testimony whereof I- have signed my name to this specificationin the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS B. GARRIS.

Witnesses:

G. L. FLoon, W. F. DowLANn. 

